My love/hate Realtionship with Precure

Okay so hate may be a strong word, but I have this weird feeling toward the Precure series. So anywho I like this series and yet I dont? I guess what's great about the series you can find one season out of all them that you like.

For instance out of all the series I have watched Fresh by far is my favorite. The story seems mature (despite fairy world's name XD), the mascots arent annoying, and the characters are interesting. I really love the bad guys in this and Peach's and Passion's relationship is awesome! Sadly I have yet to finish it because when I got to a certain point in the series then there wasnt anymore subs uploaded on anime streaming websites. I need to go back and see if the series has been fully uploaded.

Some I semi like: Suite and Doki. At first I hated Suite, but as the story progress I enjoyed it a bit more and the characters were interesting. Sadly I didnt finish it because last few episodes seem to rush so I lost interest. Personally I just wish it was a 3 cure team instead of 4. Muse kind of ruin everything because she joined the team so late. As for Doki I really liked it and felt like the story was better written than Suite and Smile. Sadly I got behind and havent made the effort to get caught up.

Series that I didnt like: Smile, Heartcatch, furtri wa (sorry for the spelling, the first season), and Precure 5.

Smile: meh, the characters were too bland and thought the theme was wasted.

Heartcatch, Furtri wa and Precure 5: These series fall together because they have the annoying mascots. I cannot stand their high pitch voices and the fact they have a little catchphrase that they must say at the end of every sentence (Hummy is exception because that is the voice of Usagi and her being a cat is too cute! Plus Hummy is just plain cute anyway!). It seems stupid that this a reason I have gave up with these seasons. But it's true. Plus their stories werent interesting to me anyway.

Splash Star: So what about this series? I have only seen 3 episodes and for some reason it seems more inserting and the mascots voices dont bother me. I need to watch more to give a full opinion.

Well at least having a love/hate relationship isn't as bad as outright HATE.

I can kind of understand finding the mascots annoying. That was one thing I really liked about Fresh too. Tarte doesn't end every sentence with an overdone verbal tic, and his voice is pretty enjoyable to listen to.

Hummy was... kind of an idiot, but too lovable to really dislike.

Candy... was a child. One could say her being annoying is exactly what was intended, but that's just it. She's an annoying child.

I've seen Fresh, Heatcatch, Suite, Smile and Doki, and the only two I dislike at all are the latter two.

If I had known Smile was going to have so little in the way of plot, I might have appreciated it more, but I kept expecting something to actually happen. The fight scenes were also pretty weak compared to Heartcatch. Smile was my second season after Heartcatch, so I had a lot of expectations.

Since Doki Doki is airing and I've seen people say they hadn't caught up yet, I'll keep this spoilered, as it goes onto up to episode 33.

Spoiler:

Doki... Doki had such potential. As of episode 7 I was ready to declare it the best in the series. But by the time Regina showed it up it seemed like the show had made a complete mess of its story and characterization.

One particular issue is that the show tends to phase out anyone who's not Mana or Regina, to the point on any given episode, Alice's only purpose is to use Rosetta Reflection.

Then there's Cure Ace, the second major problem with the show. She shows up literally out of nowhere, with no foreshadowing or previous tie in to the series. The only reason the viewer was even aware of her is because the creators tried to troll us.

So yea, her civilian identity turns out to be someone we've never met before, and she starts out pretty rude and condescending, and until her one weakness is revealed, she's shown to be really overpowered. Until she formally joins the team, her main role is to pop into the episode, lecture the focus Cure about how she isn't good enough at what she does, eat some sweets, then disappear.

Once she starts to have her personality and past elaborated on (which is TOLD and not SHOWN) she starts to become more bearable.

Then Doki's terrible writing came to a climax when they introduced us to two new villains, shafted the old ones... only to kill off the new villains ten episodes later.

Sometimes when I watch a new series I can fall behind if I miss one episode. That happened to me a lot during the summer this year because I was busy with looking for a job. I need to catch up so badly! I got to when Cure Ace appeared.

Smile had a great theme, Fairy Tales! Who doesnt love fairy tails? They wasted such a great theme. *sighs* I didnt even get to episode 20 with the series....

I noticed Precure has big problems when it comes to character development with the girls. Toei tends to focus on two of the girls than the rest of team are just there. I have no idea why? They generally have 40-50 episodes per season. They have loads of chances to balance everyone out.

Okay so I just thought about another reason I lose interest with some the seasons. Precure filler can be pretty bad. >.< Heartcatch's fillers just killed me. They were trying to be all Shugo Chara liked and failed.

>.< Heartcatch's fillers just killed me. They were trying to be all Shugo Chara liked and failed.

Heartcatch's filler was the worst. It wouldn't have been so bad if it was centered around Tsubomi and Erika, but no. On a bad episode those two only appear for the opening scene and the obligatory fight. The rest of the episode centers around some person who would eventually becoming the predictable victim of the week.

The most fun I had in a Heartcatch filler episode was trying to identify the victim ahead of time.

Ojamajo Doremi did a much better job developing the characters around the main cast, while still keeping the focus on the Ojamajos.

Even if I watched two seasons, I can really understand. However, I can't be related because I never seen the rest, nor spending a whole marathon watching them. I have other hobbies too, so yea.

It's true that the "fairy tale" theme in Smile is wasted, having 1-2 episodes directly reference to those (Cinderella and the fashion show). But I treat it as a slice of life MLP season since it involves the themes of "friendship is magic"... Plus shockingly this season is the most fan-favoried populated? Cure Peace got her own S.H. Figarts first?! I think it's up to persoanl preferences.

HOWEVER, I am not a huge fan of DDPC (hence why I sold my loot to my friend who wanted merchandise) much compare to the last.. Maybe because I miss the pony goodness. However, I don't outrageous "hate" it too. I will watch it to the end no matter what as a new tradition in on-aired shows... Plus I don't watch to many (usually range around 3-4 anime on my currently-watched list) so I'm fine. (With the huge sacrifice on missing out on the "trend" anime like Attack on Titan (was not interested).)

My special exception is when I RP as Mana at a FB fan-page, but less obnoxious and "pushes your way with helpfulnes"... But I gave her a secret AU idea that I don't' think anyone will like either, so I will not mention it anymore.

I can understand on the fillers/slice-of-life/monster of the day mess. Or more like I'm glad that I did not marathon another PreCure season, but yea... I do like Erika by the silly screenshots though. ;;